Verizon’s Samsung Galaxy Nexus Hits $49

Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus 4G Android smartphone was the first handset to deliver the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) operating system to a US handset out-of-the-box. Arriving in December 2011, the handset instantly became Verizon’s flagship smartphone, and has been popular with critics and Android smartphone shoppers alike. Verizon’s Samsung Galaxy Nexus 4G delivers one of the clearest high resolution screens and one of the largest displays in the entire 4G smartphone marketplace, as well as above average battery performance, a substantial amount of RAM memory and the most out-of-the-box, built-in data storage space of any 4G smartphone.

Buy the Samsung Galaxy Nexus starting at just $49

That handset also has made its way to the Sprint 4G network recently, and in response to that Sprint availability, Verizon has aggressively dropped the retail price of their Samsung Galaxy Nexus to $49 with a standard two-year activation and data plan. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus possesses a large 4.65 inch Super AMOLED screen, and pixel density runs 316 pixels per inch, for an overall display resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels. That resolution is at the extreme high end of any smartphone, and visuals are rendered in more than 16 million unique colors. Standard capacitive, multitouch gestures are used to navigate device, light and proximity sensors are on board, and that display is protected by a layer of scratch resistant treatment.

Talk time runs up to 12 hours from a single charge of the 1,850 mAh battery on board, and that is approximately 50% better than the average 4G smartphone. Samsung chose a Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 microchip suite for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and that package includes a dual core 1.2 GHz Cortex A9 central processor and graphics dedicated PowerVR SGX540 chip. A full 1.0 GB of RAM system memory is also on board, and the above-mentioned 4G-best 32 GB of storage space rounds out the hardware profile.

A rear mounted 5.0 megapixel camcorder joins a front facing 1.3 megapixel chat cam in the camera combo. That rear device provides video capture at a high resolution 1,080P HD, delivers autofocus, white balance, geo-tagging, panorama shot taking ability and special effects features, with the chat cam also offers video call support. A proprietary YouTube video player is pre-installed, and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus offers Near Field Communications (NFC) capabilities out-of-the-box. The most recent ICS operating system upgrade provides Google Wallet access, and the Android Beam wireless data transfer system is also supported through the NFC feature.  Buy the Samsung Galaxy Nexus starting at just $49